Antinuclear

Nuclear-related news – not the corporate versions

Some bits of good news –The largest ever private sector school meals commitment will feed 366,000 children across East Africa.   

British beavers stop underground station flooding – As floods get worse,Britain Tries a new solution: beavers. 

The French City That Champions Its Trees

TOP STORIES.

 An Open Letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz – for peace in Ukraine – Jeffrey Sachs.

Arming for extinction: Barbarism With Better Software: Pope Leo Warns of the AI Future 
The climate cost of militarism – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ZUrzGohCI

The Trump administration’s reckless attack on radiation protection will have long-term consequences for public safety.

Climate Global heating is making hajj ever more dangerous, report finds.                    Global temperatures to reach near-record highs in next five years, report finds.      Extreme Heat Headlines Obscure The Scale Of The Crisis.

AUSTRALIA. 

• Nuclear powers are expanding their arsenals instead of disarming- Australia doesn’t have to be complicit in this. 
• The Sound of Silence: Australia’s Complicity in the Face of Evidence. 
• The Suicide Note: How Australia is Dismantling the Journalism it Needs to Survive. 
• “Don’t mention the genocide”

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

CLIMATE. Wildfire Crews Race to Keep Fierce California Blaze From Former Nuclear Reactor Site. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/28/1-b1-wildfire-crews-race-to-keep-fierce-california-blaze-from-former-nuclear-reactor-site/

CIVIL LIBERTIES. New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise.

ECONOMICS. Nuclear Power and Other People’s Money.

ENERGY. Nuclear needs to build up to 8,000 SMRs just to catch up with wind and solar- By 2035, they might have 5. Energy Department takes steps toward allowing plutonium, historically used in weapons, in nuclear fuel.

ETHICS and RELIGION. The culture of power, and normalization of war in the time of artificial Intelligence -extract from Pope Leo’s Encyclical. How do you justify a war?

EVENTS. 1 June Webinar – The High Cost of Nuclear Power –   Register     2 June Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information and Resource Service present an expert briefing on nuclear energy     6 June – WEBINAR -Get Inspired by Protests Against Military Bases!

HEALTH. Nuclear test veterans hope for justice as secret files are released -ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/28/1-b1-nuclear-test-veterans-hope-for-justice-as-secret-files-are-released/

HISTORY. 128 years of US exploitation, degradation of Cuba continues on steroids.

HUMAN RIGHTS. Yet Another Escalation In The Empire’s War On Activism And Journalism.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Federal appeal court upholds First Nations victory to protect wildlife at planned nuclear waste site – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/05/30/2-b1-federal-appeal-court-upholds-first-nations-victory-to-protect-wildlife-at-planned-nuclear-waste-site/

LEGAL Anti-nuclear group take on Sellafield for the second time in legal row . Israel Ramps Up Demolitions of Palestinian Homes Ahead of Fall Elections. Legal Victory for Kebaowek First Nation and Allies vs. Proposed Radioactive Megadump.

MEDIA.

• Warmongers Keep Generating AI Atrocity Propaganda About Iran.
• From Occupation to Erasure: How Legacy Media Failed Gaza.
• With .potential Iranian deal on the horizon, MAGA media’s drawing red lines
• Trump’s government-wide NDA (non disclosure agreement) seeks to silence whistleblowers. 

PERSONAL STORIES. Bully Trump pivots from strong Iran to weak Oman – Walt Zlotow

PLUTONIUM. U.S. Turns Cold War Plutonium Into Nuclear Fuel. Trump plan to give start-ups plutonium harvested from Cold War–era nuclear weapons is risky, experts say.

POLITICS.

• Inside the broligarchy: Is big tech running US politics? Carole Cadwalladr talks to DW News.
• The False Promise of Nuclear Power: Why Scotland Doesn’t Need New Nuclear.
• The Israeli Knesset just voted to dissolve itself, but this won’t end the Gaza genocide
• It’s the genocide, stupid.
• Israel has a master plan to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouins to a giant ghetto . 

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

 Can the Imperial Core Be Reformed? Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté on the Collapse of the Global Order.

Cuba Is Not a Failed State – It Is a Besieged State.

Time for US to deescalate confrontation with China over Taiwan.

Trump’s Retaliatory Withdrawal: America Punishes Europe for Refusing to Join Its War with Iran. 

TECHNOLOGY. A troubled nuclear future.

WASTES. Europe could source half its critical materials from waste by 2050, study finds.

WAR and CONFLICT. Even American war hawks now admit Iran is defeating the US – and it will change the world. Memorial Day: The Glorification of War, Not War’s Victims.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Norway becomes ninth country to come under French nuclear deterrence scheme. Deadly drone dangers. Huge injection of public money to build nuclear submarines  at  Barrow-in-Furness.

May 31, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter